Pollinator Garden and Exploration Zones
Pollinator Garden
Bursting with colorful wildflowers, the Native Plant Pollinator Garden provides habitat for bees, butterflies, beneficial insects, and hummingbirds. The garden will enhance onsite education and seasonal events and help educate the casual visitor, families, and students about the vital role of pollinators. It will also provide opportunities for citizen scientists of all ages to monitor the phenology of plants and animals as it relates to the effects of climate change.
Friends of Mid-Columbia River Wildlife Refuges (Friends) received a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to establish the Native Plant Pollinator Garden. The garden features curved and spiral paths between flowerbeds and two hand-carved benches, one of them especially for children.
Bursting with colorful wildflowers, the Native Plant Pollinator Garden provides habitat for bees, butterflies, beneficial insects, and hummingbirds. The garden will enhance onsite education and seasonal events and help educate the casual visitor, families, and students about the vital role of pollinators. It will also provide opportunities for citizen scientists of all ages to monitor the phenology of plants and animals as it relates to the effects of climate change.
Friends of Mid-Columbia River Wildlife Refuges (Friends) received a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to establish the Native Plant Pollinator Garden. The garden features curved and spiral paths between flowerbeds and two hand-carved benches, one of them especially for children.
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The garden is an ongoing labor of love that began in 2019. Many volunteers have planned, prepared, planted, and cared for the garden throughout the first year of the project. Without their support, Friends could not realize the vision of a Native Plant Pollinator Garden.
If you are interested in participating in the project, please contact us at [email protected]. |
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Exploration Zones
Exploration zones will be created throughout the shrub-steppe and pollinator gardens, extending as well to areas along the trail that borders the wetland. These exploration zones will engage people of all ages in imagination, creative play, and different ways to connect with nature. They will include natural structures that promote kinesthetic awareness and learning, such as logs and stumps for climbing and balancing as well as providing places to sit, contemplate, and observe nature. Additional structures will include a willow hut, a bench, a nature loom, and a giant bird nest.
Exploration zones will be created throughout the shrub-steppe and pollinator gardens, extending as well to areas along the trail that borders the wetland. These exploration zones will engage people of all ages in imagination, creative play, and different ways to connect with nature. They will include natural structures that promote kinesthetic awareness and learning, such as logs and stumps for climbing and balancing as well as providing places to sit, contemplate, and observe nature. Additional structures will include a willow hut, a bench, a nature loom, and a giant bird nest.
